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The addressee's mother and sister were involved in an affair of 220 copper dirhams belonging to the widow of Abū l-Surūr who had 'screamed' against her 'oppressor.'
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Approximately 20 lines are preserved across two fragments. reused on verso for literary text (including the first Hebrew phrases from verses of Psalms 95:1-101:8,102:4-103:22). Written in a square hand with some space between the lines.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
The payment documented is for 22 wariq dirhams (much too low to be the price of the enslaved woman, so most likely the tax).
A large portion is preserved: 22 full lines from the top of the document, with the bottom of the document missing.
Some related fragments found via the FGP join finder: T-S AS 161.49 C265228 T-S NS 190.51 C373187 T-S NS 190.52 C373189 T-S Ar.30.4 C180851 T-S NS 228.21 C383384 T-S AS 161.169 C264960
The enslaved woman is named Ikhtiṣār, she is identified as black, and as having reached maturity. Cf. T-S NS 224.53 (PGPID 24059).
(Information in part from Mediterranean Society, IV, 225; also Goitein index cards.)
See Engel, The Wandering of a Provencal Proselyte: A Puzzle of Three Genizah Fragments, Sefunot: 7(22) pp. 13–21. See also T-S 16.100 (PGPID 7393), written by the same scribe and likely referring to the same events.
1. [באתה] אלינו אנ[שי... | ... ]ה שתי ש[...
2. [קרו]בתה כסבורה ש[.... | ... אחר] שנהרג בעלה [...
3. [ל]ה בכפר נאג'רה על מה [ ... | ... וסיפר] לנו כל…
David, Fustat. Dating: October 22, 1050 (Gil). Faraḥ is worried because of the absence in letters from his father.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتبت اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ و ادام عزه وتاييده و سعادته و سلامته و حراسته و نعمته من الاسكندرية لثلث خلون من
ج…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Related to T-S AS 168.112 (PGPID 22495) and T-S NS J401p + T-S Misc.28.10 + T-S Misc.28.141 (PGPID 23392) (information from Oded Zinger).
1 نسخ
In Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 22 Raḥamim, 5595 AM, which is 1835 CE. There is some ambiguity about the specific day. If Raḥamim is Elul, the 22nd should have been a Wednesday. But perhaps Raḥamim here means Av, when the 22nd did fall on a Monday.
כתיב יום ב׳ כ״ב לחודש | [ר]חמים שנת התקצה לפ״ק
ראשית דברי בקידה ובהש|תחויה למאור הגדול מורינו ורבינו ועטרת ראשנו הרב
הגדול מעוז ומגדול …
The upper heading is from Proverbs 18:22: "He who finds a wife has found happiness" (JPS translation).
(Information mainly from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 229.)
(Information in part from Amir Ashur and from Goitein, Med Soc II, pp. 228–29)
On the recto, one of the entries on the left side appears to offer the date 22 Heshvan 5496 (November 1735CE) and the entry below that is 30 Cheshvan.
Announcement written in Yiddish from the committee of Ashkenazi Jewish synagogues of Cairo about the reservation of places in the main synagogue and urging those who have not reserved that it is required without a lease and for the late-comers to reserve their places by noon on Sunday October 2 1921CE – undated, but before October 1921CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 221) in Yiddish and French. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 37).
Dated: Wednesday, 6 Tammuz 2210 Seleucid = 14 June 1899 CE. For Sālim b. Hārūn al-ʿUzērī, known as Zuhra, and Ghinā bt.
1 לסימןטובוהצלחהועושר
2 וכבודוהרוחה
3 בארבעאבשבאדהואשיתאיומי…
1 For a good sign, and success, and wealth
2 and honour and comfort
3 On the fourth day of the week, which is the si…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
(Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 218-219 and partial translation in Mediterranean Society, III, p. 228.) See also T-S NS 163.86 (PGPID 23740).
IB I, 22. Draft of an oath to be taken by Yosef Lebdi in which he enumerates his assets.
Joseph b. David—may he rest in Eden!—will swear, on behalf of David, the son of his brother Solomon—may he rest in Eden!—
that he never ch…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Dated: Thursday, 10 Tammuz 1343 Seleucid = 22 June 1032 CE. Left page: see separate PGP record.
3 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
(Information from CUDL and Gil, Documents, pp. 193 #22)
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
For similar texts see e.g. S. Assaf, Shetaroth, 22-4; CUL Or. 1080 5.13 and Or. 1080J.51 given in G.
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ II 717 AH = 4 July 1317 CE. Buyer: Isḥāq b.
The document also contains mirrored text, imprinted from a colophon on T-S AS 221.307 (PGPID 40128) over the course of centuries of adjacent storage.
(Information in part from Goitein, Mediterranean Society. II, p. 225.)
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Location: Alexandria. Dated: Thursday, 22 Tammuz [5]355 AM = 29 June 1595 CE. Yaʿaqov Castro is renting to Yosef Loḥamit.
(Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 172, 221, and from Goitein's index cards.) Same sender and addressee as L-G Ar.
Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen, who is probably the same trader who appears in T-S NS 226.107 (PGPID 24248) and T-S 8J37.1 + T-S Ar.5.2 (PGPID 5433)..
He signs: Shelomo Av ha-Yeshiva birabbi Yehuda, and surrounds his name with tiny letters spelling out ‘And I am a worm and not a man’ (Psalms 22:7). The letter was carried by his son Avraham (לידו מיד חמוד), and he is seeking help for the community of Jerusalem, many of whom have died in a plague (נאספו בדבר אשר נפל בעיר).
....
Dowry items preserved =22 dinars (but clearly a lot of items are missing from this sum).
1 مناقشة
An adaptation of the biblical verse Proverbs 18:22 is used, known to be a favored and distinctive choice of the scribe Yefet b.
Possibly a partnership agreement. A sum of 22 dinars is mentioned; a period of two years; and the dower (mahr) of "his daughter" Sitt al-ʿIzz.
Yūsuf Zayn al-Tujjār (see T-S NS 225.25j), and a third whose name is not preserved.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon Muḥammad, his prophet, and his pure family [ …
Looks like the same Hebrew scribe as T-S NS 222.9 and T-S Ar.46.89 (which are likewise reused decrees).
At the bottom of verso it appears to refer to the year 412 AH, which would be 1021/22 CE. Underneath that, mentions the amīr ʿAbdallāh the son of the amīr Ṣārim al-Dawla.
Resembles T-S AS 202.399 (PGPID 22677). Joins: Alan Elbaum. Description from T-S AS 202.412: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Dated: Sunday, 10 Sivan 4898 AM = 22 May, 1138 CE. Signed: Yosef Shemuel ha-Sofer and Moshe b.
(Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 224 #37)
In Thy Name,
the beginning of the reconstruction:
Monday, the 11th
of Elul:
bought 120 ḥimls
of clay, paid 36 dir.
The wa…
Here, 100 pounds of bread and its transportation cost 22 1/2 [1/4 MR Cohen] dirhams. The salaries recorded are typical.
known as Ibn Kawjakh (mentioned also in T-S NS 226.107. On this name, from the Persian for 'small' see India Book IV/A, p. 355, note 115), [...] b.
Mentions that Abū Naṣr al-ʿAfṣī owes nothing to the sender nor to Ibn Nuṣayr; mentions going up to Cairo; passing on information about the price of sugar (it is "22"); the addressee is to retrieve dinars from a female shopowner (ṣāḥibat al-dukkān); also mentions Abū l-Mundhir and Rashīd.
Legal record (#66) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 22r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 14 Elul 5324 CE (1564 CE).
Dated: Tuesday, 23 Tishrei 5408 AM = 22 October 1647 CE (not 1787 CE as stated in Ktiv).
The addressee is known from several memorial lists of Qaraite Nasis, e.g. T-S 8K22.3 (PGPID 2243), Yevr. II A 1318 (PGPID 27523), and Yevr. II A 1319 (PGPID 27524).
(Fragment discovered by Prof. Eve Krakowski 08/18/22). MCD.
The conversions provided in the document are as follows: 1 dirham: 64 ḥabbas 1 ūqiyya: 768 ḥabbas (= 12 dirhams) 1 raṭl: 7812 ḥabbas (= approximately 22 dirhams, which is lighter than expected) 1 qadaḥ: 19340 ḥabbas (= approximately 2.5 raṭls)
Dated: Friday, 19 Adar 2203 Seleucid = 18 March 1892 CE. Location: Al-Maḥābisha in northwest Yemen, also known as Quzayyiz, near the lake or well al-Qaṭf.
Legal document: acknowledgment (ʾiqrār) written for or by Avraham Ibn Yijū. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ I 548 AH (17 June 1153 CE), after his return to Egypt.
. . . . . . . . . .] . . . . . ا . . . له بني ادم له ما لهم وعليه ما عليهم لم يشترط عليه مالا ولم يجتعل عـليه
جعلا واقر ان اخاه بو البشر بن بو ا…
, see: T-S AS 205.97 (PGPID 22744).
Rosh ha-Qehilot (appears also in T-S NS 226.127 (PGPID 24269)). Recto contains two signatures and the beginning of a third: Shemuʾel b.